#1 Robert Kuok

FUZHOU, CHINA: Malaysia's richest man Robert Kuok (C) receives a souvenir from a Chinese official (R) during his visit to Fuzhou, in southeastern China's Fujian province, 18 April 2005, as president of the Kuok clan in Malaysia. The region's richest man, with his empire including the Shangri-La hotel chain, the South China Morning Post newspaper in Hong Kong and real estate group Kerry Properties, got his start trading rice and then sugar in Malaysia in the 1950s and 1960s. The woman at L is unidentified. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP/Getty Images)